Top 10 Best Blogging Platforms & Sites In 2018 (Free & Paid)

A Blogging Platform is an application or service that allows you to manage your blog from a dashboard. It’s a kind of Content Management System (CMS).

Choosing the right platform is very crucial to get success in blogging. If you’ve read my story, you might be aware that how selecting wrong platforms cost me. Here’s the long story short.

I started my blogging journey with Weebly and WordPress.com platforms. Both of these platforms banned my account due to some TOS issues.

That is why you need to think carefully before choosing your platform. Since I know how overwhelming it can be to select the right platform, because I was in your position, I decided to make a list of 10 best blogging platforms and sites with pros and cons.

Ghost is like WordPress but simpler. Consider it as a minimalist form of WordPress without all the advanced content management features.It is written in JavaScript, and you could get it for free and install it in your host.

Pros:

Simple to use and clean user interface.

Super fast because it is written in JavaScript.

Optimized for SEO.

Cons:

Options are limited since it is very simple.

Not enough themes.

Not easy to customize.

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No third-party plugins. Only basic ones available in the setup itself that you could enable.

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Complicated to setup if you go and install it yourself and you wouldn't be going with the hosted option.

Bottom line: If you are a minimalist and looking for a simple blogging platform, you can give a try on Ghost.

For all of these blogging platforms you have described here, the online presence for anyone is now as easy as having a cup of tea with a friend in a break. I have experienced 1, 2, 3 & 7 & found WordPress as the best one for me. And, obviously, I am currently on it. Though I know about 4, 5, 6 & 9, I have no enough knowledge of them. And, 8 & 10 are totally unknown to me. Now I know, so thank you.